Wednesday, June 24th, 2009 Task Force Meeting

Good Morning All,
I am writing all of you because you have either been involved with the Rio Arriba Comprehensive Plan Task force in the past, or you have expressed interest in being involved during our last round of public meetings for the 2009 Comprehensive Plan updates. As you may know, the amendments to the Comp Plan were approved by the Board of County Commissioners on May 20th and we are now ready to reconvene the task force and work on prioritizing goals and strategies of the Plan and implementing those priorities.

We sincerely hope that all of you involved in the past will be able to commit time to the taskforce again, and those of you who were interested will also be able to find time to be involved. We are planning our first meeting for next Wednesday, June 24th, 2009 at 2pm here at the County Complex in Española. This meeting will be a strategic planning meeting where we will discuss the structure of the task force (meeting times, places, regional/sub committees, etc.), the work priorities for the task force, and the division of responsibility among task force members. We would appreciate if everyone would reply to us and let us know whether or not you are planning on coming to the first meeting.

If a number of people have a problem with the timing of the meeting we could possibly arrange it to be later in the afternoon, so please let us know if you have a scheduling conflict. We will confirm the date on Friday and email a tentative agenda around for comment. We will have agendas, a copy of the amended Comprehensive Plan, and other task force materials for each member at the meeting on Wednesday. It is important that you all let us know if you are coming or not so we can get an idea of how many materials we will need to bring.

Many of you worked with Chris Palmer in the past. He is no longer with the Planning and Zoning office. My name is Louise Pocock and I began working with the planning and zoning department as a planner in February. I, along with Lucia Sanchez, another new planner in the P and Z department, will be facilitating the task force. We really look forward to meeting with you all next Wednesday. Please reply to this email and let us know whether or not you will make the meeting – or if you have any additional questions or concerns. For those of you who wish to view the Comprehensive Plan before then, the amended version is on the on the Rio Arriba County Website under the Planning and Zoning Departments web page.

Sincerely,
Louise Pocock

Assistant Planner
Rio Arriba County
Planning and Zoning Department
1122 Industrial Park Road
Espanola, NM 87532
P. 505.753.7774
F. 505.753.4732
E. lkpocock@rio-arriba.org